I never met Lyn but exchanged a couple of emails with her
and was struck by her easy, generous manner. Then not long after
she died I read her introduction to Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives.
Having read a lot of Stein’s writing and a lot of writing about her
work, this passage struck me as an exact articulation of what
it is that makes her writing so unique:
“[Gertrude] Stein had invented a mode of iteration to
indicate not recurrence but phenomenological
OCCURRENCE, the perpetual coming into being through
accumulated instances of the person that is.”
— Introduction to Three Lives (Green Integer, 2022)